Assassinations

Ray Smith and Bubba Hooker were in class, winding down the week before Thanksgiving. Mike Smith was waiting for his car to be repaired. Dennis Koutoufas saw it hit home at his Catholic school. And Mike Tallon delivered the news to his shocked community. Each generation is partly defined by one question: "Where were you when …?" For most of us, that event is 9/11. But for the over-60 crowd, and even some in their late '50s, it was John F. Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963. Fifty years later, they still remember. How could they ever forget? "I was a ninth grader at Warwick High School," said Ray Smith, now the athletic director at Bethel....

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